Congrats on rooting continuously. Probably he might be in lockdown with Laptop & Internet alone.
Just 4 fun.
it’s not actually that continuous. I thought it was a bit strange but it turns out they rooted this box a few hours before posting it, and some of the other boxes were a week ago.
it’s not actually that continuous. I thought it was a bit strange but it turns out they rooted this box a few hours before posting it, and some of the other boxes were a week ago.
Wow!! This box was intense!! I struggled a lot with the root part but with all of your’s hints and some very useful articles, I was able to make it! Thanks all!
I can try and help if anyone wants any small hints - though I doubt that everything you need is all given in here!
And…rooted! Really had fun with this one! Banged my head against the wall on Compromised for a day or two, so I decided to try blackfield. For foothold and user I think I used exactly the same route/path as everyone else. However for root/system…I really don’t think so: there is a much faster way than those horrible, clunky b****up commands/scripts, that for me at least, just did NOT want to work, no matter how I formatted everything and what prayers I chanted to the HTB Gods — but then I started thinking…wait, with those privs come other, mm…possibilities – so, with a certain PS mo**le one becomes quite powerful…this certain PS script can be found in the wild and lets you do interesting things…modules to make an exact copy of your system…on your system - could that be used for more???
Whew right in time! Really glad I did this box before it retired, it was a great experience with kerb and AD.
Nice work.
Interesting that it is retiring just after 117 days…
Cache is 145 days…
Confusing, would have thought cache would go first…
Me too, especially since I thought there was a medium Windows box all queued up on the Submissions page
Seems odd they would get rid of a box with a near perfect 5 star rating but who knows lol
its a mystery :neutral:
At least its another Windows machine
It does seem a bit of an odd approach and there isn’t the level of consistency there used to be where the oldest one or two were always the one replaced.
I used to think it was the box with the largest number of root/user owns, but that isn’t true either.
Interestingly:
The last 5 releases have been: 1 x insane, 2 x hard, 1 x medium, 1 x easy. For people who aren’t yet ready to jump to the hard ones, there aren’t many new boxes at the moment (and we could argue all day about how hard the medium/easy ones really are)
tl;dr - this was a very fun box and a great one for people to learn some solid windows techniques.
Interestingly:
The last 5 releases have been: 1 x insane, 2 x hard, 1 x medium, 1 x easy. For people who aren’t yet ready to jump to the hard ones, there aren’t many new boxes at the moment (and we could argue all day about how hard the medium/easy ones really are)
That is interesting - I found this Hard box easy-ish compared to other medium boxes but it is all about skills and mindset I guess, so I agree with you on that (argue all day about how easy an easy machine is etc)
tl;dr - this was a very fun box and a great one for people to learn some solid windows techniques.
Agree on that mate, it was super fun
Interestingly:
The last 5 releases have been: 1 x insane, 2 x hard, 1 x medium, 1 x easy. For people who aren’t yet ready to jump to the hard ones, there aren’t many new boxes at the moment (and we could argue all day about how hard the medium/easy ones really are)
That is interesting - I found this Hard box easy-ish compared to other medium boxes but it is all about skills and mindset I guess, so I agree with you on that (argue all day about how easy an easy machine is etc)
tl;dr - this was a very fun box and a great one for people to learn some solid windows techniques.
Agree on that mate, it was super fun
Well the next one looks to be rated at the borderline-insane level so we’ll see how that goes